In-person staff training for Bradford District

• An Introduction to Schools of Sanctuary/Forced Migration by Kate, Bradford Schools and Colleges of Sanctuary project co-ordinator. Contact: [email protected] 

  • ‘Thank you for the training this evening at Carlton Bolling, it genuinely was fascinating and really meaningful. It gave an overall picture of the current situation around migration and how to be kind and aware of issues facing some people seeking sanctuary in our community and beyond. ’  Teacher, Carlton Bolling

  • ‘The most helpful thing I learnt was where to access further resources to support refugee pupils and some of the challenges children face in school.’ Teacher, Lilycroft Primary

• Supporting Refugee Children in Schools and Colleges by Solace. Contact: [email protected] 

  • Free training for staff at schools and colleges and for case workers and other professionals in working effectively with trauma and the impact of forced migration.

  • Covers topics such as: understanding stress, trauma and vicarious trauma; effects of trauma on learning; the importance of schools and teachers; strategies in the classroom; self-care for support staff working with asylum seekers and refugees.

  • For further details see here.

Other Opportunities:

See our national Schools of Sanctuary page for a wide range of CDP opportunities

Helpful short videos giving key definitions:

• Who is a refugee?
• Who is a migrant?
• Who is an asylum seeker?
• Who is an internally displaced person?
• Who are stateless people?

Classroom practice for supporting refugee students

Reading:

• Joanna McIntyre & Fran Abrams: Refugee Education, Theorising Practice in Schools. A comprehensive book to help understand approaches to the schooling of young people seeking sanctuary with case studies.
• Recommendations for sustainable provision in schools for children who are refugees – The Bell Foundation
• Supporting Refugee and Asylum Seeker young people

Courses:

• Supporting refugee children in schools with Refugee Education UK/Twinkl
• Healing Classrooms programme by the International Rescue Committee. Free training to support teachers to develop inclusive and nurturing learning spaces for refugee and asylum-seeking students
• Refugee Education UK – Training in supporting new refugee students in school; and training for careers/admissions staff relating to accessing FE and HE for students from sanctuary seeking backgrounds.
• UNHCR Teaching about refugees training course – a free of charge teacher-training 5-module course to develop understanding about refugees and learn how to teach about them to pupils in school.
• Refugee Education UK – University of Nottingham teacher education course 
• The national college – Unconscious bias

Trauma-informed practice

Reading

• UK Trauma Council Education Toolkit
• Bear us in Mind: psychological toolkit for displaced children and families
• UNHCR – Including Refugees in Your Classroom. Guidance related to language acquisition & stress and trauma.
• Trauma-informed schools
• Beacon House Trauma resources – information, ideas, strategies, videos
• Safe hands, thinking minds – links, websites and podcasts

Courses

• Trauma-awareness training – Kazzum Arts
• Adverse childhood experience course – (15 mins without videos/45 mins with videos) For parents or anyone working with children
• Trauma-informed course – Twinkl

EAL

• Bell Foundation – A wide range of relevant training opportunities, including free webinars and supporting resources.
• NALDIC – The National Subject Association for EAL hosts annual conferences, in addition to regional and thematic interest group meetings, and publishes termly journals aimed at developing expertise of supporting learners with EAL in school.